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Perhaps in small, private forums, but in public physicians are a protected class. Not many op-eds criticizing the AMA vs the big, evil pharma companies. That sa
by stocknoob 6y ago
Perhaps in small, private forums, but in public physicians are a protected class. Not many op-eds criticizing the AMA vs the big, evil pharma companies. That said, it's not a panacea, but not great when a 15-min visit to get a $.10 pill costs $200.
- whatshisface 6y agoOh, of course, it just hadn't occurred to me to consider op-eds a meaningful participant or representative of the public discourse.
- stocknoob 6y agoThey set the Overton window of allowed policies.
- matthewdgreen 6y agoNot great, but also: people above this asked why the system doesn't get reformed, and the answer is that doctors are popular with the voting population, and tackling their salaries will only have a modest impact in reducing costs. This is not to say that doctor's pay shouldn't be addressed, but the system doesn't get reformed because every discussion on fixing it gets derailed into a discussion of doctor's pay, which is literally the highest-effort lowest-payoff part of the problem. And the situation stays bad because of this dynamic.
- teorema 6y agoA $.10 pill that the person has been taking for years and is maybe even safer than many things sitting on the shelves of the hardware or grocery store.